F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable.”
“For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against that book to stamp it out of the world, but it has a mightier hold on the world today than ever before. If that were man's book it would have been annihilated and forgotten hundreds of years ago.”
Source: Our Bible: How We Got It and Ten Reasons Why I Believe the Bible is the Word of God
“For eighty-eight years, the world revolved around Ivy. That which she could see and touch was real to her, everything else a mere figment. Departing visitors, setting off back for their own lives, were swiftly dispatched from her conscious thoughts, taking with them all tangible evidence of their existence. She would lock her doors to the outside world and settle down with a cup of tea, but for Foggy entirely alone in her world. And yet conversely, whilst the conversation in that departing car might revolve around Ivy for a handful of miles, the reality of her existence would soon be forgotten in favor of the more immediate stresses and strains pervading the lives of Peter and Janet. Out of sight, out of mind.
Every human being occupies a space at the dead center of his or her own universe.”
Source: Normal
“For eighty years Belgium has sent your land the best of her sons, first to deliver the Congo basin from the odious slave trade which was decimating its population. Later to bring together the different tribes which, though former enemies, are now preparing to form the greatest of the Independent states of Africa.”
“For eighty years convicts had been shipped to Australia, and a total of 163000 had set out on that voyage from which few returned. In the modern history of Europe there was rarely a planned deportation on a more ambitious scale until the era of Stalin and Hitler.”
Source: The Story of Australia’s People Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia
“For either of us, it's not a matter of what you believe in as much as it is of what you do. Tell me, Joseph, who is better? An agnostic who gives open-heartedly to charity and is a paragon of upstanding values or a very religious asshole who purports religion to contort and control? Sinning believers settled in their sinful ways in the comfort of the knowledge that their sins have been preemptively pardoned are infinitely worse than those who walk in doubt and seek not to harm anyone.”
Source: Interview with the Devil: Resurrection
“For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.”
“For electric vehicles to make an impact on climate change, they must be powered by renewable energy sources, otherwise, the powerplants producing the electricity to power the vehicles would end up dumping more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere than we are able to reduce by replacing regular vehicles with electric ones.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.”
“For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.”
“For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.”
Source: The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“For emotion is why anyone does anything at all. If you can control emotion, you can control everyone. If you can understand emotion, you can understand everything.”
Source: The Paragon
“For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of mind because intellectual conflict was resolved.”
“For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.”
Source: The Comedies of Plautus
“For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.”
Source: Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910
“For enslaving a nation, just kill the conscientious people, the rest can be bought.”
“For entertainment, a party bears no one in as much as those who are not there. ”
“For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.”
“For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.”
Source: Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)
“For Equilibrium, a Blessing:
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.
As the wind loves to call things to dance,
May your gravity by lightened by grace.
Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,
May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.
As water takes whatever shape it is in,
So free may you be about who you become.
As silence smiles on the other side of what's said,
May your sense of irony bring perspective.
As time remains free of all that it frames,
May your mind stay clear of all it names.
May your prayer of listening deepen enough
to hear in the depths the laughter of god.”
Source: To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
“For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share markets rising solidly in each of the past three years. This has been underpinned by strong growth in profits so that, notwithstanding the rise in share prices, P/E ratios have been declining on average.”
“For [erotically intelligent couples], love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. They know that they have years in which to deepen their connection, to experiment, to regress, and even to fail. They see their relationship as something alive and ongoing, not a fait accompli. It’s a story that they are writing together, one with many chapters, and neither partner knows how it will end. There’s always a place they haven’t gone yet, always something about the other still to be discovered.”
Source: Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
“For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.”
“For ethical AI systems, the question is, "Who decides what is ethical?" Well, starting from the developer, researchers, organizations, governments, and international bodies should always act according to their conscience and always in the best interests of humanity. Equal effort must be made to guarantee human safety, freedom, autonomy, and justice.”
Source: Ethical AI Systems: Frameworks, Principles, and Advanced Practices
“For ethical reasons we aren’t allowed to ask subjects to do anything which they or their society consider unethical. The problem to which I was devoting my life—how much a human being can be changed—could never be touched by scientists, since the bone ingredient of all men is their resistance to change”
Source: The Dice Man
“For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.”
Source: The Wretched of the Earth
“For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.”
“For Europeans a president having an affair, especially in France, is a joke. No one cares, it would never bring this kind of trouble to a country.”
“For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet
“For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.”
“For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.”
“For even he who is most greedy for knowledge can achieve no greater perfection than to be thoroughly aware of his own ignorance in his particular field. The more be known, the more aware he will be of his ignorance.”
“For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.”
“For even if the heart is not the seat of the emotions, it is highly responsive to them.”
Source: Heart: A History
“For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning.”
“For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?”
Source: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
“For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.”
“For even in hell, I still have faith, To one day be free with my father at the gates, But make no mistakes, I'll show you what time takes, To be a success on earth, mixed with all the hate, I stand on my pivot, my life you could not live it For the things that I've seen have been too damn explicit.”
“For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.”
Source: The Vorbing
“For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.”
Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
“For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things.”
“For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.”
“For even the darkest of nights could not hold back the dawn.”
Source: The Obsidian Butterfly
“For even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites by the way. Had they been strictly held to their one final and romantic object—that final and romantic object, too many would have turned from in disgust.”
Source: Moby Dick
“For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.”
“For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.”
Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry
“For ever after, you will be glad you did what you wanted instead of what everyone else expected. No doubt you wonder how someone as young as I can possibly know this, but trust me: I have seen more deadly, dark, and … lovely things than you can possibly imagine.”
Source: Strange and Ever After
“For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.”
Source: The Troll Garden: Short Stories